**Originally Listed At $500**

Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). Oil on board, n.d. Signed on upper right. A captivating landscape painting by Paul Forster featuring a herd of sheep roaming a wide open prairie blanketed with snow under mesmerizing blue skies. Forster had an unusual talent for capturing both the tranquil as well as the sublime qualities of nature in his works simultaneously, always conveying a sense of awe and wonder in his works. A stunning painting rendered with a soothing color palette. Size: 24" L x 36" W (61 cm x 91.4 cm)

At the age eight, Paul Forster became the youngest member of the Albright Art Gallery Association and also started studying at the Museum School with watercolorist Robert Blair. During World War II, Forster served in the Army Air Corps, and in 1952, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a Fine Arts Degree. In the late 1950s, Forster had a studio in Nevada painted murals for the Mormon Church. In the early 1960s, he taught art and became Chairman of the Art Department of the L.D.S. Schools of the South Pacific in Tonga. In 1969 he left Brigham Young University to paint full time. For the greater part of the next decade, Forster traveled throughout the American Southwest in an Airstream trailer to paint the environment and its inhabitants. In time, he moved to Oregon followed by Kansas City, but eventually returned to Arizona.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Signed by the artist on the upper right. A few scuffs and stains as shown, but the painting still shows very nicely.